Sorry for the long wait.. here's chapter six...
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Chapter Six

Instead of taking the elevator down to his Hulk room, Bruce decided to take the stairs down. He mumbled to himself the way down the four flights of stairs. He clenched his hands tighter into fists, and bit his lip as he punched in the security code for the Hulk room and locked himself inside. Him and Tony were the only ones who knew the code to get into the room. He paced the room trying to calm himself down but wasn't succeeding. He raked his hand through his hair still groaning in frustration gritting his teeth and growling feeling The Other Guy push his way through.

Tony had finished his breakfast and went to his own lab working on some more modifications for his Iron Man suit. He was listening to some AC/DC very loudly before JARVIS interrupted him, "Excuse me, but I do believe I was listening to that," he scolded the AI. "But sir, you had asked me to let you know if Dr. Banner uses the Hulk room at all," JARVIS announced. "Well, why didn't you tell me sooner," Tony dropped what he was doing and just left it on the lab table getting ready to leave. "My apologies, sir," JARVIS said with some slight sarcasm. Tony got into the elevator heading for the Hulk room impatiently. As soon as he got to the Hulk room he punched in the code quickly and find Bruce hunched over in the corner with his knees pulled to his chest. Tony took a few steps closer him and spoke quietly, "Bruce are you okay?"

Bruce picked his head up looking at Tony panting slightly, still trying to calm himself. Tony looked down at Bruce taking another step closer seeing flecks of green in Bruce's brown eyes. Tony slowly sat down next to Bruce and looked at him concerned. Bruce buried his face back into his arms and didn't look back up. Tony hesitated and gently rested a hand on Bruce's arm, "Bruce? Are you alright? What happened baby?" He kept his head buried in his arms and shook his head silently. "Don't you dare tell me it's nothing, because it has to be something. You locked yourself in your Hulk room," Tony paused a little and watched as Bruce shook a little, "it's obviously something." Tony gently moved his hand up Bruce's arm and wrapped his arm around his shoulders. Tony turned slightly and pulled Bruce into his chest and held him tightly against him. He felt Bruce heave against his chest a little and heard him start sobbing.

He wasn't sure how long they sat there but Tony looked down at Bruce and gently pulled his face from his chest, "Do you mind telling me why you've locked yourself in here babe?" Bruce looked up at Tony with red puffy eyes from crying and sniffed a little, "I'm sorry. I'm just over tired, frustrated and concerned I guess. People keep poking at me and I guess I just got pushed over the edge," Bruce sighed a little and looked down at Tony's chest looking at the reactor avoiding his stare, "I felt I had to lock myself in here. I wasn't sure if I could control him with how tired I was and how upset.." Tony stopped him from talking and interrupted him, "wait, who's been upsetting you, who's been bothering you Bruce?" Tony looked at him seriously, obviously bothered that Bruce was upset. Bruce blushed slightly and shook his head slightly, "it doesn't matter, Tony." "Of course it matter Bruce! Your friends should not be upsetting you like this! Now tell me who was bothering you," Tony didn't mean to get so upset or yell. Their team mates should not be upsetting Bruce to the point of locking himself in the Hulk room in fear of hurting his own team mates.

Bruce flinched at little hearing Tony yell a little. He looked up into Tony's brown eyes and frowned a little. He sighed quietly and looked back at Tony's reactor, "The team's worried about you Tony. They keep asking me to talk to you and see if I could fix what was wrong with you. It was a few weeks ago when they first asked me about you," Bruce glanced up at Tony's eyes, then went back down, "they kind of appointed Steve to do the talking. They've noticed a difference in your behavior Tony. They know about the dreams too. How much they know, I'm not sure." Tony stiffened a little and kept his eyes on Bruce, "Alright, that still doesn't explain why you locked yourself in here today." Bruce kept staring at the blue light emanating from Tony's chest, "Natasha and Clint came to me after brunch this afternoon. They kind of pushed about you. I was frustrated, and exhausted, and kind of upset to begin with," he spoke the last part rather quickly. Tony sighed a little frustrated and leaned against the wall holding Bruce tightly against him, "I'm glad you're okay Bruce, but you need to tell me these things. I can't help you if you don't talk to me." Bruce nodded a little, "I'm sorry Tony. I just got overwhelmed I guess." "I'll talk to them. You lay down and get some sleep," Tony stood up gently grabbing Bruce's shoulders and standing up with him. Tony kissed his cheek and left the Hulk room looking for Natasha, Clint, and Steve.

Bruce went upstairs to his bedroom and laid down in bed. Just as his head hits the pillow he passes out. Tony clenched his hands into fists as he searched the tower for his fellow Avengers. Tony walked into the living room and found Clint, Natasha, and Steve sitting on a couch watching a James Bond movie. Tony walks over grabbing the tv remote and turns the tv off. "Hey! What the hell Stark?!" Clint hollered throwing his hands up in the air. "Yeah," Steve and Natasha asked looking at Tony. Tony crossed his arms over his chest and glared at the three of them. "So, I heard from Bruce, you three have harassed him. About me. What's going on? He just got so fucking upset that he felt like he had to lock himself in the Hulk room, because he was afraid he would hurt you guys," Tony didn't yell but he spoke very sternly, keeping his hands in his hands balled into fists. Clint glanced at Natasha, who then glanced at Steve, who looked at the two assassins. Steve sighed a little, "Fine," he tore his gaze from the assassins and looked at Tony standing up, "we didn't mean to upset Dr. Banner to that point. We were just concerned for you. We've noticed how you've been acting lately, you're not around much and I know that you haven't been sleeping well." "We all heard you waking up screaming Tony," Natasha said standing and reaching out to Tony." "Don't," Tony stepped back away from her hand, "this isn't about me right now. This is about Bruce, and how upset he is right now. You three had no right to harass him to the point of upsetting him that much." Clint stood up and got slightly defensive, "Listen, we were not harassing him. We wanted him to talk to you about whatever the fuck it is that you have going on Stark," Clint took a step closer to Tony pointing at Tony, "we know that you've been acting weird Tony, and we are supposed to be a team. We're here for you, and don't you dare ink that none of us have issues Stark."

Tony swatted Clint's finger away angrily and steps closer almost threatening to fight, "Like I said Barton, this isn't fucking about me, it's about Bruce. If I wanted to fucking talk about my goddamn problems with you three, I would have come to you guys earlier. It's none of your goddamn business how I sleep at night, or what I dream about while I sleep!" Tony felt the threat of tears burning in his eyes, "you know what, whatever, I don't give a fuck anymore," Tony starts to walk away and turns around briefly, "if any of you bother Bruce again, so help me God, it's not the Hulk you're going to have to worry about dealing with," Tony turns back around and starts heading up stairs to Bruce's room to check on him.

Tony gets up stairs and gently knocks on Bruce's door hearing nothing. Tony couldn't help but think the worst as he threw his door open.

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